The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria

From the Introduction: "This section opens with Amedeo Raschieri's study of the fragments of Republican oratory transmitted by Quintilian, which shows that his choice of what to cite and whom to name was prompted by a range of considerations, from a pedestrian requirement to find grammatical illustrations, to questions of canonicity, moral exemplarity, and pedagogical utility. The aggregate of Republican oratorical material in Quintilian is shown to be highly heterogeneous, and Quintilian's immanent authorial concerns emerge as an important factor in the patterns of citation observable in his work. Quintilian is argued to have known much of the Republican oratory he cites at first hand, and thus, rather than recycle judgements or passages from his predecessors, was fully equipped to make a personal intervention in the critical traditions concerned with Republican oratory".